Deck 12: Semantic Longterm Memory

Question 1

In neuropsychology, a specific deficit in naming is referred to as _____, whereas _____ is a more general term for difficulty with language comprehension or production.

Answer 1

Anomia; aphasia

Question 2

What are some of the limitations of single-patient studies?

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

The progressive impairment of intellect and behavior is referred to as:

A)Anomia
B)Dementia
C)Dysphasia
D)Aphasia

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What are the three subtypes of primary progressive aphasia?

Question 5

Frontotemporal dementia can follow an acute event, such as a stroke.

Question 6

What is the difference between anomia and aphasia?

Question 7

How have demonstrations of double dissociations of selective impairment for knowledge of living vs. nonliving things been taken as evidence for the modality-specific hypothesis? For the category-specific hypothesis?

Question 8

Describe the fMRI adaptation paradigm and the logic behind its use for experimentation.

Question 9

List two of the category deficits that have been used to support the domain-specific knowledge hypothesis of semantic memory

Question 10

Which of the following can come about as a result of acute brain damage?

A)Dysphasia
B)Synesthesia
C)Alzheimer's
D)Primary progressive fluent aphasia

Question 11

One neurological condition has been known by two names, "fluent primary progressive aphasia" and semantic dementia. How does one's choice of name reflect what one believes to be the core deficit of this disorder?

Question 12

Word-finding difficulties might be associated with which of the following?

A)Semantic dementia
B)Aphasia
C)Alexia
D)All of the above

Question 13

A deficit in accessing the meaning of categories such as animals or fruits has been used as evidence for the _____-specific knowledge hypothesis.

Question 14

How does primary progressive aphasia differ from Alzheimer's disease?

Question 15

What are the main claims of the category-specific hypothesis of semantic memory?

Question 16

Where is the "hub" of the "hub and spoke" model of semantic memory hypothesized to reside?

A)Posterior temporal lobes
B)Medial temporal lobes
C)Anterior temporal lobes
D)Superior temporal lobes

Question 17

Progressive damage to what brain region is associated with semantic dementia?

A)Inferior frontal
B)Superior frontal
C)Anterior temporal
D)Media temporal

Question 18

What are the main claims of the modality-specific hypothesis of semantic memory?

Question 19

What evidence is there that fluent primary progressive aphasia/semantic dementia isn't simply a deficit in lexical access?

Question 20

How have the inferences from neuropsychological double dissociations been criticized? What evidence is there in favor of this criticism?

Question 21

Alex Martin and colleagues have argued that activity in left fusiform gyrus is associated with the storage of color-related knowledge about objects. Discuss one alternative interpretation of this finding, and how Martin and colleagues have sought to rule out this alternative.